Top Priority Sector: video_surveillance_cctv Dice Corp. has introduced what company chief executive officer Clifford Dice said aw a revolutionary cloud-based video management system. The company’s Matrix universal video system can simultaneously deliver alarms and their linked videos to operators, including personal computing devices like iPads, he said. That functionality, he…
VOTI imaging system qualifies for Canadian cargo screening
Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Image Caption: Voti XR3D-6 X-ray security systems developed VOTI Inc.’s 3-D perspective XR3D-6 system has been qualified through Transport Canada’s Screening Equipment Qualification Approval Process (QAP) for Air Cargo Security (ACS), said the company on Sept. 4. The system, it said, will now be included on…
Kaba’s e-DATA debuts new time, access and alarm management system
Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Kaba ADS Americas, la manufacturer of access control and data system solutions, has introduced its new Time Key data capture terminal to its intelligence-based product line. Time Key is a versatile integrated time & attendance and physical access control product, says the company. By combining the…
CBP procures another forensic laser system for its San Francisco lab
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: border_security The Coherent Tracer System, a piece of laser equipment used by scientists performing latent fingerprint analyses, is becoming popular within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agency announced on Sept. 5 that is awarding a contract worth $48,200 to a small business, Arrowhead Scientific,…
Coast Guard officially accepts new rescue comms system in Buffalo
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Rear Adm. Michael Parks In official ceremonies and demonstrations on Aug. 22, Coast Guard Sector Buffalo inaugurated a new Rescue 21 communications system. Rescue 21 is the Coast Guard’s advanced command, control, and direction-finding communications system, created to more efficiently locate mariners…
ICS-CERT issues alert on power plant control system
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cyber_security A control system used by electrical power plants could have a vulnerability that leaves a back door open for hackers to get into the system, according to DHS’ critical infrastructure Cyber protection team. The vulnerability in the Rugged Operating System, made by Siemens subsidiary…
Navy testing of sonar system in Gulf won’t harm dolphins or whales, concludes NOAA
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Image Caption: Bottlenose dolphins The U.S. Navy’s plans to test a mine reconnaissance sonar system in the Gulf of Mexico will have a “negligible impact” on 29 different species of marine mammals that inhabit the area — including various dolphins and whales — and,…
DHS awards $100 million contract for ultralight aircraft detection system
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Ultralight aircraft Facing increasing pressure from drug dealers using ultralight, hard-to-spot aircraft to smuggle drug loads across the border undetected, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a New York company with a $99.9 million contract for detection technology that can find them….
CBP’s Chicago lab wants laser system to develop latent fingerprints
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: border_security U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s laboratory in Chicago, which processes thousands of latent fingerprints each year in support of criminal cases pursued by Homeland Security Investigations, plans to purchase one portable TraceER forensic laser system built by Coherent, Inc., of Santa Clara, CA, or…
NYC will pocket 30% on Microsoft’s sales of law enforcement domain awareness system
Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Michael Bloomberg,NYC’s mayor Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced on August 8 a new partnership with Microsoft designed to bring the latest crime prevention and counterterrorism technology capabilities to New York City and to law enforcement, public safety and intelligence agencies…